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I've decided to get a refractometer. The reasons are; 1- I want to put as few items into the must as possible to limit chances of contamination. 2- I find reading a hydrometer imprecise. 3- I’m lazy and don’t want to have to clean and sanitize so many things every time I want to take an SG...

Hello all, I am so glad to find this Forum. On 1/1/2008 I started my first wine kit. I was working on the set of a major motion picture (I am a film electrician) when I meet this Old Italian guy, he was the scenic artist for the film, who talked a few of us into making our own wine. We built a...

In all of the WE kit instructions, under stage 2, secondary fermentation, is the line 'You must rack the wine at this time'. This is strong wording, without explanation why. I missed the 7-day time limit, taking the first stage to ten days. The result was no change in the SG and no secondary...